Upcoming Departure 2024
Sulawesi Birding Trip 15 days / 14 Nights
Price US$ Per Person ( Min. 2 Person)
Price included: English Speaking Bird Guide, Mineral water, Snacks, Meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner), Accommodation during the trip, Entrances to Parks and Reserves, Local guides, local park ranger, birding site fee, landowner fee, Private car.
Price not included: Domestic flight tickets, Insurance, Alcoholic Beverages, Laundry, Tips, All personal expenses that are not mentioned on the items above, and Any kind of expenditures incurred due to flight cancellation/delays or due to other causes beyond our control. Kindly please book in advance to ensure availability.
Sulawesi birding trip for 2024, please choose one of the summaries of new birding plans below:
Sulawesi birding trip 15 days / 14 nights
Birding code: 01/15 days/SBT
Summary:
day 01: Makassar arrival – Malino
day 02: Malino birding full day
day 03: Malino – Ramang ramang
day 04: Ramang-ramang birding
day 05: Raman ramang – Airport, fly to Palu – Lore Lindu
day 06: Lore Lindu National Park
day 07: Lore Lindu National Park
day 08: Lore Lindu – Palu
day 09: Palu – Makassar – Manado – Tomohon
day 10: Tomohon Gunung Mahawu birding
day 11: Tomohon – Tangkoko
day 12: Tangkoko Nature Reserve
day 13: Tangkoko Nature Reserve
day 14: Tangkoko Nature Reserve – Manado (tongkaina)
day 15: Morning birding in Gunung Tumpa – Transfer to the airport
Sulawesi birding trip 15 days / 14 nights
Birding code: 02/15 days/SBT
Summary:
day 01: Manado arrival – Tangkoko Nature Reserve
day 02: Tangkoko
day 03: Tangkoko
day 04: Tangkoko – Tomohon
day 05: Tomohon
day 06: Manado – Makassar – Palu – Lore Lindu
day 07: Lore Lindu National Park
day 08: Lore Lindu – Palu
day 09: Palu – Makassar – ramang2
day 10: ramang – ramang
day 11: ramang – ramang
day 12: Ramang – ramang to Malino
day 13: Malino
day 14: Malino – Makassar
day 15: Transfer to the airport
What is included?
- English Speaking Bird Guide fee
- Mangrove boat Trip near Tangkoko Park
- Meals, daily breakfast, lunch, and Dinner
- All accommodations during the trip
- Entrances to Parks and Reserves
- Local guide fee / Local ranger fee
- Car Transport during the trip
What is not included?
- Insurance
- Alcoholic Beverages
- Airfare or domestic flights
- Laundry
- Tips
- All personal expenses that are not mentioned on the items above.
- Any kind of expenditures incurred due to flight cancellation/delays or due to other causes beyond our control.
Payment Term and Condition
We require a minimum of 50% deposit payment to confirm your booking, we cannot guarantee your booking until this has been received. Bookings will be held for 7 days to allow the client time to send a deposit payment. We reserve the right to release the booking if the deposit is not received within 7 days of the booking being made. Changes of dates to bookings after the deposit has been made can be done but will be subject to availability.
Cancelation: Deposit payment No Refund, No show – full payment charge.
Full Payment, The full payment will be required at least 30 days prior to your date of arrival. The invoice amount has to be paid in full, net of all transfer costs and bank charges.
TYPE OF LAND TRANSPORTATION & ROAD
We will use a minibus or cars. The road is some part in good condition and some parts in bad condition. While for the mangrove boat trip, we will use a small boat.
BIRD GUIDE
This trip will be provided with an English speaking bird guide during the whole trip and a local guide (who owns/guard the land) for each place in Sulawesi
LIABILITY
Sultan Birding Tours acts only as agents for the passenger in regard to travel, whether by railroad, motorcar, motor coach, boat, or airplane, and assumes no liability for injury, damage, loss, accident, delay, or irregularity which may be occasioned either by reason of defect in any vehicle or for any reason whatsoever or through the acts or default of any company or person engaged in conveying the passenger or in carrying out the arrangements of the tour. Sultan Birding Tours can accept no responsibility for losses or additional expenses due to delays or changes in air or other services, sickness, weather, strike, war, quarantine, or other causes. All such losses or expenses will have to be borne by the passenger, as tour rates provide for arrangements only for the time stated. Baggage is at the owner’s risk entirely. The airlines concerned and their agents and affiliates are not to be held responsible for any act, omission, or event during the time passengers are not on board their aircraft.
Introducing Sulawesi, Dazzling Birds on An Island Rich in Culture
Sulawesi has some really dazzling birds. Just a perusal of the names is enough to get the andrenalin going: Purple-bearded Bee-eater, Sulawesi Lilac cheeked Kingfisher, Fiery-browed Myna, and Great-Shortwing. An assortment of unusual mammals – the strange Babirusa of “pig deer”, The rare see Anoa ( a dwarf buffalo), three unique species of tarsier, and seven unique species of macaque – add to the excitement of being in the forest. World-class snorkeling and diving are available whenever you need to cool off. Birders will gravitate towards the northern peninsula and central Sulawesi, where the largest areas of rainforest are found, and in particular to the huge national parks of Lore Lindu, 100 km south of the provincial capital, Palu. Dumoga Bone, on the “northern neck”, and the much smaller reserve of Tangkoko – Dua Sudara, on the tip of the Minahasa peninsula. with 120 endemic species to go for, the birder will find Sulawesi a real Mecca. it is quite possible to see 80% of these endemics in a 3 – week trip with a little effort and planning. Sulawesi is the highest level of endemism in Indonesia, of 421 bird species known from the island, approximately 88 (27%) are found nowhere else. Fourteen genera are so unusual that they are considered unique to Sulawesi.
For those wishing to get well off the beaten track, however, Sulawesi has a fascinating collection of satellite islands to explore. Muna and Buton, off the southeast corner, are the largest, but the most interesting for birders are the Banggai Islands – home to a unique megapode and crow – off the Western peninsula, and Sangihe and Talaud, which have the dubious distinction of supporting the highest concentration of threatened birds species in Indonesia.
This 189,000 sq km island also boasts impressive landscapes and a fascinating range of cultures. Sulawesi is in essence a group of volcanoes and, if global warming were to raise the sea level just a few meters, it would become a cluster of islands separated by narrow straits, as the Philippines archipelago is today. Indeed, this was how Sulawesi appeared 4,000 years ago. Ritual in Sulawesi, as elsewhere in the archipelago, is not a rich part of the social calender but also an arena to display and assure health and status. Best known are the death rites of the Toraja, a distant ethnic group inhabiting the gloriously scenic Tana Toraja highlands in South Sulawesi. The Toraja are also famous for their beautifully carved “origin” houses, and effigy-guarded cliffside graves.
